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Maple Leaf Rag Flashcards

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What is oe of the most venerable styles of music?

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Folk music

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What American entertainer named his fictional version of an African American Jim Crow?

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Thomas Dartmouth Rice

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What is another name for folk music?

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Vernacular music

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What was the problem with songbooks of folk music

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They seldom preserved information about the accompaniment to songs and usually negleced instrumental music altogether

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What term is often applied to folk music?

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Functional

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What was one record manufacturing company that issued monthly catalogues of all their recordings and included essays drawings listener’s attention to the fascination of folk-song or new Ballad Records?

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Gramophone Company Lttd.

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When was Opera invented and where?

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In the 17th century at the dawn of the Baroque period in Venice

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What was the name for the female lead in an opera?

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Prima donna

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What is the name for the male lead in an opera?

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Prima uomo

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What type of operas came from England?

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Ballad operas and comic operas

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What type of operas came from Germany?

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SIngspeil or sung play

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What opera’s came from Frannce?

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Opera ballets with a heavy emphasis on dancing

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What was the term given to large, government licensed theaters in France that had opera plays?

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Opera-comique

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What was the term given to small comic shows in France after the country loosened its licensing laws?

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opera-bouffe

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What was the very first opera-bouffe written by Jacques Offenbach?

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Orpheus in the Underworld

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What happens in Orpheus in the Underworld?

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Orpheus goes to the Underworld to rescue his wife Eurydice but Orpheus doesn’t want her back

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What was the team of British satirical operettas that had a huge impact on the United States?

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William Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan

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What show of Gilbert and Sullivan showed more than50 production in the United States after its 1878 debut?

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H.M.S. Pinafore

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How did entrepreneurs use various themes to pull in opera audiences?

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By using all-Black, all Catholic, all children and so forth casts

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What was the problem with American and royalties?

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When the international copyright law was passed in 1887 at the Berne Convention the United States was one of fourteen countries not to sign it

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How many countries did not sign the International copyright law?

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Fourteen

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What was the second opera opened by Gilbert and Sullivan in the United States?

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The Pirates of penzance

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When did the United States see the first ballad operas?

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1794

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what was the name of shows featuring white players portraying African Americans?

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Minstrel shows

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What were cakewalk’s originally drawn from?

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Plantation era challenge dances in the South

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Slaves would walk around trying to mimic their owners and the winner would get a cake what does this describe?

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A cakewalk

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What states have songs from minstrel shows written by Stephen Foster?

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Kentucky and Florida

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What is the state song of Kentucky?

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My Old Kentucky Home

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What is the state song of Florida?

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Old Folks at Home

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Why could theaters not present purely dramatic performances in England?

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Because of British licensing laws

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Who supposedly created the why did the chicken cross the road?

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A black troupe led by Charles Hicks

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What family worked hard to increase the respectability of music hall?

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The German Reed family

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What were music halls and outgrowth of?

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Taverns and pubs

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What was the problem with initial music halls?

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The middle class did not want to attend because of their lack of respectability

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What songs are continued to be sung by Americans that are from the minstrel era?

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Oh Susannah, I Dream of Jeannie with the Light Brown Hair, Jimmy Crack Corn, Turkey in the Straw, Camptown Races, Dixie

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What was a Cockney ethnic portrayal song that mimicked the rhyming slang of Eastern Londoners?

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My Old Dutch

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Herman’s Hermits in the 1960’s made a number one hit recording by reviving another of what Cockney inspired tune?

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Im Henry the Eighth I am

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Who was the first theater owner to use the term vaudeville?

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John W. Ransome

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What theater owner thought the correct term for vaudeville was variety?

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Tony Pastor

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What did a vaudeville show consist of?

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A long series of acts by a diverse array of entertainers

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What did theater owners band together in during the vaudeville era?

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Cicuits

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What were acts known as in the vaudeville era?

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Turns

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In a vaudeville show what are the lists of turns known as?

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As the bill

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What two celebrities appeared in vaudeville shows?

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Helen Keller and Babe Ruth

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What Prohibitionist simulated her destruction of saloons fo the entertainment of vaudeville audiences and then passed out souvenir axes?

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Carrie Nation

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How was music provided for vaudeville singer?

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By resident musicians in each theater

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What diid theater musicians keep for particular moods or situations?

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Stock music

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What would visting singers give to in house musicians?

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A cue sheet

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What comedy strip was used by Drane and Alexander in the vaudeville era?

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Mutt and Jeff

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What are some well-known entertainers who gained early experience on the vaudeville stage?

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Max Brothers, Mae West, Jack Benny, Bob Hope, Judy Garland and the Three Stooges

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What was the first vaudeville production team to break a theatrical color barrier in 1883?

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Harrigan and Hart

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What eventually supplanted the vaudeville tradition?

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The advent of film

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According to magazine Harper’s Weekly how many “military” bands did the United States have in 1889??

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10,000 bands

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What band was formed in France during World War One and whoe captain was Pervy. E. Tickler the son of a wealthy manufacturer?

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5th lancashire Fusiliers

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What African American formed a band to support the 369th infantry regiment during World War One?

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James Reese Europe

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What were three African Americans other than James Reese Europe to lead African American bands?

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Tim Brymm, William H. Tyres and Ford Dabney

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Who was arrested for delinquency at age eleven and sent to the Colored Waif’s Home in New Orleans where he joined its band?

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Louis Armstrong

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How did women participate in bands in the 19th century?

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By playing the violin or harp

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What was one of the most successful of all women bands?

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Helen May Butler’s Ladies Brass Bands

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What was Butler’s slogan for her female bands?

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Music for the American people by American composers, played by American girls

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What branch of the military was Sousa in?

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The Marines at age 20

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What number conductor of the Marine Band was Sousa?

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Ir’s 14th conductor

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What was Sousa’s nickname?

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The March King

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How many military marches did Sousa compose?

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More than one hundred composers

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What is the usual tempo for marching soldiers in the United States?

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120 beats per minute

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What was the national march of the United States?

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The Stars and Stripes Forever

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What was the two-step dance lso known as?

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the Washington Post

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What was one of the favorite marches of World War One fighting forces?

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Colonel Bogey written by Kenneth J Alford in 1914

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What was Colonel Bogey the pseudonym for?

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Lieutenant Frederic j .Ricketts a British army bandmaster

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How would New Orleans march bands play during the funeral procession?

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Somberly on the way there and exuberantly on the way back

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What were two best known early pieces for concert band by British composer Gustav Holst?

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The First Suite in Eb and the Second Suite in F

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What was the ery first book printed in the New England colonies?

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The Bay Psalm Book

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Who wrote new religious tunes that were written as exercises for the schools?

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William Billings

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What were the first two hymnals that introduced the term gospel in print?

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Gospel songs and Gospel hymns and Sacred Songs

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Who founded a professional quartet to help market their gospel songbooks in 1910?

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The Vaughan Music Publishing Company

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What were two popular gospel songs among the troops?

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His Eye is on the Sparrow and The Old Rugged Cross

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Who reported that on the day of the Lusitania Americans on a New York subway broke out in singing In the Sweet Bye and Bye?

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Charles Ives

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What was the oldest national anthem?

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God Save the King or Queen

78
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what was the national anthem of France adopted in 1795?

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La Marseilaise

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What did Carlos III of Spain chose as the Royal March in 1770?

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An anonymous instrumental tune

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What was Joseph Hayden’s 1797 melody that was chosen as Austria’s national anthem?

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Kaiserhymne, the Kaiser’s Hymn

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What melody was Francis Scott Key’s Star-Spangled Banner?

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To Anacreon in Heav’n

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What did many people prefer as america’s national anthem?

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America (My country, tis of thee)

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What did the National Song Society endorse as the National Song of the United States?

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A New National Anthem

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What was the second song endorsed by National Song Society?

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My Own United States

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Why was a man shot in the back three times in 1919 to applause of the audience?

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Because he failed to stand up while the Star-Spangled Banner was playing

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When did Congress approve the Star-Spangled Banner as the national anthem?

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1931

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What was the songbook for the international Workers of the World?

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The Little Red Songbook

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What was The Little Red Songbook originally titled?

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Songs of the Workers on the Road, in the Jungles and in the Shops-Songs to Fan the Flames of Discontent

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What were union members of the IWW known as?

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Wobblies

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The Wobblies adapted what song for their movement?

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We’ll Overcome omeday

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What was the anthem for African Americans lobbying for Civil Rights?

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We Shall Overcome

92
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Catharina van Rennes wrote a large scale choral choral work that she conducted herself in 1908 at what event?

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The opening of the Fourth International Congress of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance

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What was the rousing final of Dam Ethyl Smyth’s Song of Sunrise?

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The March of the Women

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What was the anthem for suffragettes in Great Britain?

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The March of the Women

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What happened to Smyth while in prison?

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She conducted her inmates in March of the Women while she conducted them with a toothbrush

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What was the nickname for the 1890’s?

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The gay 90’s

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What was the first ragtime piece shown at the World’s Columbian Exposition in 1893?

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Jesse Pickett’s The Dream

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The style called ragtime incorporates traits from?

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Brrass band marches and dances, Euorepan piano music and Lati, Africa and South American elements

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What is the steady pulse usually maintained in ragtime music?

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Eight or quarter note

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Who was the first black composer to publish a rag?

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Tom Turpin

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What piece of Scott Joplin’s was dedicated to Turpin?

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The Rosebud March

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Who gave Joplin lessons at the age of eleven?

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An old German musician

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Where did Joplin study music in college?

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George R. Smith College in Sedalia

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Who became a friend of Joplin while at Sedalia and published about a third of Joplin’s work?

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John Stark

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What was Scott Joplin’s first rag published in 1899?

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Oriental Rag

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What was Joplin’s royalty payment per copy of Maple Leaf Rag?

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One penny per copy

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How many copies of Maple Leaf Rag were sold during its first year?

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400

108
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How was a piano roll created?

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A pianist would play a keyboard punching machine that would creat perforations in a long scroll of paper

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When did Joplin die?

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1917

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When did Joplin piano roll record Maple Leaf Rag?

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1916

111
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Why was Joplin beginning to loose his fine motor ability by 1916?

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Because of syphilis that would take his life in 1917

112
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What tren for rag time did Joplin hate?

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The trend of playing it faster and faster

113
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What is the form followed by Maple Leaf Rag?

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AABBACCDD

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What is an example of Maple Leaf Rag’s descent from march ancestry?

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A beautiful series of upward sweeps through non-syncopated notes. The steady left-hand pulsation stops, making the texture briefly monophonic

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Up to the 19th century what dance was popular in couple dancing?

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the waltz

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What was a new fad for individual dances?

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Animal dances

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What were two repopularized couple dances in the 1920’s that caused great consternation among conservatives?

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The foxtrot and the tango

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What pope declared that the tango was an immoral dance and prohibited to all Catholics?

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Pope Benedict SV

119
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What was the Poor Butterfly?

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A foxtrot version that was composed by Raymond Hubble and presented in a 1916 Broadway production called The Big Show which reflected an awareness of the Great War raging across the Atlantic

120
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What was Madama Buttefly?

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A opera by Puccini in 1904 when a Japanese geisha waits in vain for her American lover to reclaim her

121
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What is swing?

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A performance style that lengthens the first note in a pair, subtracting a corresponding amount of time from the second note’s value

122
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Who is the Father of stride Ppiano?

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James P. Johnson

123
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What was James Johnson’s best known tune?

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The Charleston

124
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What French composer concluded his piano suite Children’s Corner with Golliwogs Cakewalk?

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Claude Debussy

125
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What did Golliwogs Cakewalk in Children’s Corner make use of?

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ragtime rhythms

126
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What composer’s pieece was made fun of by Children’s Corner with Golliwogs Cakewalk?

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Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde

127
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Who wrote A Soldier’s Tale?

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Igor Stravinky

128
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WHat is A Soldier’s Talke about?

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A magical violin, a soldier, the devil who wants the soldier’s soul and an enchanted princess. The soldier must perform a trio of dances, the tango, the waltz and a ragtime to restore the princess’s health

129
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What work did Stravinsky complete in 1918?

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Ragtime for Eleven Instruments

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On the back of what work did Stravinsky write Day of Deliverance. The Germans have surrendered?

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Ragtime for Eleven instruments

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